From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 6 11:49:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15726 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:49:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [205.147.64.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15719 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:49:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wwoods@cybcon.com) Received: from freebsd.cybcon.com (usr1-39.cybcon.com [205.147.76.40]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA07113; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:49:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:49:08 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: wwoods@cybcon.com From: William Woods To: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: Floppy Tape Driver..... Cc: FreeBSD Current Cc: FreeBSD Current , Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So, basically I am screwed? On 06-Feb-99 Julian Elischer wrote: > OR, > > get teh changes needed (that were removed) from the fd driver.. > (you can find them using the CVS web-pages) > and the correct files, and get it all working again.. > > One of the problems was that there was no-one that the intersecting set of > developers who could maintain the driver, and people who had and used > these devices was a null set. > > If this were to change (i.e. there wa an active maintainer, and users) > then it could possibly be re-introduced, or at least made into a supported > patch set.) > > julian > > > On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message , William Woods writes: >> >> >I just finished looking in LINT for "ft" the floppy tape device. Now I >> >remember >> >some discussion of this being removed a while ago, but I do not remember >> >the >> >outcome of this. I am running a -curent system and was wondering what I sue >> >for >> >a floppy tape driver. >> >> Save yourself the worry and trouble and buy an atapi tape instead... >> >> -- >> Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member >> phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." >> FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >> ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods Date: 06-Feb-99 / Time: 11:48:34 FreeBSD 4.0 -Current ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message